An island called home : returning to Jewish Cuba /

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Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it "Hotel Cuba." But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Eur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Behar, Ruth, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Behar, Ruth, > 1956-
Jews > Cuba > Biography.
Cuban Americans > Biography.
Jews, Cuban > United States > Biography.
Juifs > Cuba > Biographies.
Américains d'origine cubaine > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Cuban Americans
Jews
Jews, Cuban
Juif > Cuba.
Cuba > Biography.
Cuba > Biographies.
Cuba
United States
Juden.
Kuba.
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Looking for Henry
  • A Kaddish for the Jews who rest in Jewish cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's mother who does not
  • A tour of Havana's synagogues
  • The kosher butcher shop
  • The shirt that holds sadness
  • Los Prinstein
  • In the realm of lost things
  • How to pack your suitcase
  • Enrique Bender's blue-green eyes remind me of my grandfather
  • The dancing Turk
  • Monday morning in Luyanó
  • Danayda Levy's school report
  • May Day with a Jewish communist
  • The whispering writer
  • The three things José Martí said all real men had to do
  • Einstein in Havana
  • Salomón the schnorrer
  • Mr. Fisher's twice-yearly gifts
  • Becoming Ruth Berezniak
  • After everyone has left
  • The ketubah that became a passport
  • When I see you again there will be no pain or forgetting
  • Traces
  • Simboulita's parakeet
  • Seven Jewish weddings in Camagüey
  • Che waits for a new frame
  • Pearls left in Cienfuegos
  • The Moses of Santa Clara
  • A conversation next to El Mamey
  • Villa Elisa
  • The pact with Abraham
  • Salvador's three wives
  • A beautiful pineapple
  • The last Jew of Palma Soriano
  • The Mizrahi clan in Guantánamo
  • Departures
  • My room on bitterness street.

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